Editing Corey Haim (section)

===Substance abuse===
Haim struggled with substance abuse for most of his life.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2010-03-11-sc-ent-0310-obit-corey-haim-20100311-story.html|title=Corey Haim battled addiction for much of his life|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref> He was already drinking beer in his early teens on the set of ''Lucas'' in 1985, and a year later, he tried [[marijuana]] on the set of ''The Lost Boys''.<ref name="The Story Behind The Lost Boys"/> Haim asserted that the filming of ''License to Drive'' was his "breaking point" for becoming addicted to drugs.<ref name="reunited"/> On his return from a Hawaiian family vacation in May 1989, Haim told the press that he had been clean for a month after going [[cold turkey]] without the help of a substance-abuse program.<ref name=daily>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2L8sAAAAIBAJ&pg=7211,2746100&dq=corey+haim&hl=en|title=Haim dreams of drug-free life|work=Wilmington Daily Star|date=March 23, 1989|access-date=June 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=anchor>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bD8eAAAAIBAJ&pg=6060,2731946&dq=corey+haim&hl=en|title=Corey Haim free from drugs for past month|work=Anchorage Daily News|date=March 20, 1989|access-date=June 16, 2010|first=Marilyn|last=Beck}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Fellow ''Lost Boys'' actor [[Brooke McCarter]] began managing Haim in an effort to keep him clean.<ref name=times/><ref name=phillips/> McCarter was dating [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning producer [[Julia Phillips]], who termed the assignment "babysitting".<ref name=phillips/> In her [[You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again|memoir]], Phillips recalled Haim's asking her permission to take out her daughter, and the moral conflict she experienced while smoking marijuana in front of him, saying: "Mixed feelings about Corey. Love him. Detest him too, or at least the manipulative part that knew how to make people twice his age snap to. Are you really only eighteen? Who writes your dialogue"?<ref name=phillips>{{cite book | author=Phillips, Julia | title=You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again | location=New York | publisher=Random House | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-394-57574-2| title-link=You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again }} p 618 et seq.</ref>

During the filming of ''Without Malice'' (2000), Haim would reportedly halt production to call Toronto and check if his dog was dead, and sudden medical incidents required the filling of emergency prescriptions.<ref name="regina"/>

By 2001, Haim had sought rehabilitation 15 times for his drug addiction.<ref name="cinema">{{cite web|url=http://www.cinema.com/news/item/5014/corey-haim-in-coma-after-drug-overdose.phtml|title=Corey Haim in coma after drug overdose|date=September 23, 2001|website=Cinema.com|access-date=April 20, 2010}}</ref> He spent time in rehabilitation and was placed on prescription medication, which he began to abuse.<ref name="Corey Feldman Says He Won't Attend Corey Haim's Funeral"/> On August 10, 2001, his mother found him unconscious at his Los Angeles bungalow.<ref name="cinema"/> He was rushed to the [[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center|UCLA Medical Center]] where doctors managed to stabilize him. Two weeks earlier, from July 23, 2001, Haim had spent some time in [[Sherman Oaks Hospital]].<ref name=cinema/>

Feldman said of Haim: "He made so many attempts at suicide. He's ODd so many times. I mean, I can't begin to tell you, having him foaming at the mouth, coming downstairs and finding him that way and drooling and not able to speak, and me, having to put charcoal down his throat so that he could breathe."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/03/84899/index.html|title=Corey Feldman on Corey Haim's death: I don't think it was suicide|first=Allison|last=Kugel|work=ET Online|access-date=July 19, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819013515/http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/03/84899/index.html|archive-date=August 19, 2010}}</ref>

Haim stated that at one point, he did not leave his apartment for three and a half years and ballooned from 150 to 302 pounds.<ref name="reunited"/> By 2004, Haim appeared to have overcome his drug habit after his mother persuaded him to return to Toronto with her and resettle there.<ref name="Corey Haim Obituary"/>

Feldman vowed that he would no longer speak to Haim until he got clean.<ref name="Former Teen Stars Confront Corey Haim About Drug Use"/> On ''The Two Coreys'', Feldman and his wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Haim in an effort to get him to admit he needed help.<ref name="Former Teen Stars Confront Corey Haim About Drug Use"/> Feldman added that he did not consider Haim to be "a safe person to have around my wife and child at the moment".<ref name=dukecnn/> After his falling-out with Feldman, Haim had a car accident while under the influence and walked out for good on the show's therapist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crashing Cars And Flushing Drugs: The Two Coreys Season Finale|url=http://www.defamer.com.au/tags/the-two-coreys|date=August 10, 2008|work=[[Gawker Media|Defamer]]|access-date=March 23, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530082323/http://www.defamer.com.au/tags/the-two-coreys|archive-date=May 30, 2009}}</ref> Publicly severing his ties with Haim, Feldman stated: "I am not going to watch him destroy himself."<ref name=rottenberg/>

On the advice of his lawyer, Haim went to a physician in California with the goal of sticking to a program to wean off pills without multiple doctors in order to demonstrate that he was working toward getting clean.<ref name=behar>{{cite news|title=Transcript of The Joy Behar Show: Interview with Corey Haim's Agent|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/17/joy.01.html|publisher=CNN|date=March 17, 2010|access-date=March 29, 2010}}</ref> Haim's agent stated that the doctor was reluctant to drop Haim from his current level to zero pills, fearing a seizure, and took him to an addiction specialist to get mental help.<ref name=behar/>